Regarding Linux device driver Project

[matthias.bgg@googlemail.com (Matthias Brugger)]

Hi,

ashutosh mishra schrieb:
>> hi
>> i want to write a driver for DIO-48S PCI Card
>> (its automation Project - Aluminium Foil Winding Automated System Using PCI Interface)
>> i want to ask that what are the..prerequesite...for the Project...
>> i hav konwledge of C,89c51 Microcontroller,Arm Processor.........
>> but i am not able to start...........i hav gonr through  Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org Collected lots of information.
>> so please ...any one can help...????????
>> its Urgent Require.....

have a look on http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ especially chapter 12 should help you.

Regrads,
Matthias

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>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:00:01 -0500
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>> 1. Re: Running kmemleak without sysfs support (Daniel Baluta)
>> 2. Re: possible regression? (Mag Gam)
>> 3. Re: possible regression? (Greg Freemyer)
>> 4. Re: Regarding Kernel Project (Greg KH)
>> 5. Re: Running kmemleak without sysfs support (Greg KH)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:33:36 +0200
>> From: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: Running kmemleak without sysfs support
>> To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
>> Cc: kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
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>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Catalin Marinas
>> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:41 +0000, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>>>> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
>>>> kernel support enabled?
>>> Kmemleak can scan output the memory and report the number of leaked
>>> objects but if you need to get additional information about the leaked
>>> objects (like backtrace), you need debugfs enabled.
>> How is this reporting done? It will appear in dmesg output?
>>
>>> DEBUG_FS doesn't seem to be dependent on SYSFS but I never tried to
>>> enable one without the other (you might be able to mount the DEBUG_FS
>>> somewhere other than /sys/kernel/debug/).
>> I see. I was using 2.6.32 where it seems that debugfs depended on sysfs.
>> Decoupling was done some time later [1].
>>
>> thanks,
>> Daniel.
>>
>> [1] http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/8/5/4603446
>>
>>
>>
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:50:38 -0500
>> From: Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: possible regression?
>> To: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>> Message-ID:
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>> I am using RHEL 5.1. Sorry for not being clear.
>>
>> I wil give this a try today when I go back to class. But I was just
>> curious why this was happening. How would one disable "block merge"
>> efficiency? Has this feature been added recently?
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
>> <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:36, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Running on Redhat 5.1 if I do,
>>> Are you sure you're using that archaic distro? Or are you talking
>>> about RHEL 5.1?
>>>
>>>> dd bs=1024 count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>>>
>>>> I get around 30Gb/sec
>>> Hm, mine is:
>>> $ dd bs=1024 count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>> 1000000+0 records in
>>> 1000000+0 records out
>>> 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.12169 seconds, 913 MB/s
>>>
>>> This is on 2.6.36 SMP kernel compiled with gcc version 4.1.2 20080704
>>> (Red Hat 4.1.2-48).
>>>
>>>> However, when I do this with 2.6.37 I get close to 5GB/sec
>>> what if you use another blocksize, let's say 4K or even 32K? here's
>>> mine (again):
>>> $ dd bs=4K count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>> 1000000+0 records in
>>> 1000000+0 records out
>>> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 1.31167 seconds, 3.1 GB/s
>>>
>>> $ dd bs=32K count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>> 1000000+0 records in
>>> 1000000+0 records out
>>> 32768000000 bytes (33 GB) copied, 4.91775 seconds, 6.7 GB/s
>>>
>>> see the difference?
>>>
>>> IMHO it's a matter of what I call "block merge efficiency"....the more
>>> you stuff pages (that fits into a "magic" number), the faster I/O you
>>> got.
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Mulyadi Santosa
>>> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>>>
>>> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
>>> training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
>>>
>>
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:29:20 -0500
>> From: Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: possible regression?
>> To: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com>
>> Message-ID:
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>> Mulyadi,
>>
>> You disappoint me. ;(
>>
>> Just kidding, but discussing dd throughput without the
>> "conv=fdatasync" parameter is just a waste of everyone's time.
>>
>> And Mag, use a big enough count that it at least takes a few seconds
>> to complete. A tenth of a second or less is just way to short to use
>> as a benchmark.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
>> <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi...
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:36, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Running on Redhat 5.1 if I do,
>>> Are you sure you're using that archaic distro? Or are you talking
>>> about RHEL 5.1?
>>>
>>>> dd bs=1024 count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>>>
>>>> I get around 30Gb/sec
>>> Hm, mine is:
>>> $ dd bs=1024 count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>> 1000000+0 records in
>>> 1000000+0 records out
>>> 1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 1.12169 seconds, 913 MB/s
>>>
>>> This is on 2.6.36 SMP kernel compiled with gcc version 4.1.2 20080704
>>> (Red Hat 4.1.2-48).
>>>
>>>> However, when I do this with 2.6.37 I get close to 5GB/sec
>>> what if you use another blocksize, let's say 4K or even 32K? here's
>>> mine (again):
>>> $ dd bs=4K count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>> 1000000+0 records in
>>> 1000000+0 records out
>>> 4096000000 bytes (4.1 GB) copied, 1.31167 seconds, 3.1 GB/s
>>>
>>> $ dd bs=32K count=1000000 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
>>> 1000000+0 records in
>>> 1000000+0 records out
>>> 32768000000 bytes (33 GB) copied, 4.91775 seconds, 6.7 GB/s
>>>
>>> see the difference?
>>>
>>> IMHO it's a matter of what I call "block merge efficiency"....the more
>>> you stuff pages (that fits into a "magic" number), the faster I/O you
>>> got.
>>>
>>> --
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> Mulyadi Santosa
>>> Freelance Linux trainer and consultant
>>>
>>> blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com
>>> training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com
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>> Message: 4
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:12:27 -0800
>> From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
>> Subject: Re: Regarding Kernel Project
>> To: Mulyadi Santosa <mulyadi.santosa@gmail.com>
>> Cc: kernelnewbies <Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
>> Message-ID: <20110120151227.GA12768@kroah.com>
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>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:32:39PM +0700, Mulyadi Santosa wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:01, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 09:11:53PM -0500, Pein Junior wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> What is the USB device and vendor id?
>>>>> Hope this manual help explaining all that.
>>> Guys, I don't wanna ruin your discussion, but don't you think it's OOT
>>> now? or are we going to rename this list as chitchat at vger.org?
>> This is how you both solve bugs, and learn about solving them yourself.
>>
>> I'll be glad to take this to the linux-usb or linux-kernel lists, as
>> this type of conversation is quite common there, so why wouldn't it also
>> be common here?
>>
>> If it's annoying you, I suggest getting a better email client, one that
>> lets you mark any thread as "ignored" so we don't bother you.
>>
>> best of luck,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 5
>> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 07:56:57 -0800
>> From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
>> Subject: Re: Running kmemleak without sysfs support
>> To: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@gmail.com>
>> Cc: catalin.marinas at arm.com, kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
>> Message-ID: <20110120155657.GA29375@kroah.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 12:41:57PM +0200, Daniel Baluta wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Can I make any use of kmemcheck if I don't have sysfs
>>> kernel support enabled?
>> Why would you ever want to run a kernel without sysfs support? If you
>> turn it off, you loose a _lot_ of functionality that you will need to
>> add back to your system in some other manner.
>>
>> What, specifically, is wrong with sysfs that is solved by turning it
>> off?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h
>>
>>
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